July 8, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• learn the basic parts of English sentences.

• learn to chart a non-fiction text.

• learn about prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

• learn the elements of short story.

Homework:

• Finish Charting the Text: 'Five Myths about Terrorists'"
• Dialectical Journal: "Before the End of Summer"
• Mr. Devine is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

• Checking homework today:
  • See the list on the white board.
• Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday)
  • summer school planner 2010.pdf

Agenda

• Students keep Cornell Notes.
  • Prepositions Practice
  • *** Identifying Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
    • Preposition or Adverb?

• Students keep Cornell Notes.
  • Identify Complete Subjects and Predicates
  • Sentence or Fragment?
  • Identify Simple Subjects and Predicates
  • Compound Subjects and Verbs

• What does the author say?
• What does the author do?
• Students complete the remaining paragraphs at home.

• What would your best friend have to do to get you to seek revenge?
• What would your best friend have to do to make you want to kill him/her?

• Read "Building Background" on page 86.
• Listen to the story and follow along in your book.
• Watch 2 music video versions of the story:
  • One
  • Two
• Listen to the story again and this time add summary sentences to your notebook.

• Due Friday, because this project will take more time.
• Create a dialectical journal (with 3 quotations, just like the others).
• Decorate and prepare your work as if it were found in the depths of Montresor's wine cellar after decades of being hidden.
  • Show students the Dialectical Journals from Night.
• Begin planning and creating your dialectical journal.

• Hard-to-find subjects
• Hard-to-find subjects part 2